Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Just picking up where Mr. Cullen was talking about penalties, maybe it would be instructive for the committee, if we're going to delve into that, that we should have PSAC appear, to get their opinion on what to do with collective bargaining agreements and civil servants who are in a situation of non-performance or non-compliance. It might be instructive for Mr. Cullen to ask those questions of them.
To our witnesses, thank you for your return to the committee to testify today. Of course, we are looking at Bill C-474. Shall I say it's another opposition bill presented to this committee that's had to have substantial amendments performed on it?
Listening to your testimony, Mr. Thompson, I just want to raise a couple of questions out of curiosity I'd like to satisfy first, and then I'll probably delve into the main line of my questioning. It's about the familiarity with which you've been consulted with respect to the crafting of this legislation.
I just want to establish, for curiosity's sake, whether the Office of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development has ever been involved in the consultation or the advising on the crafting of legislation. Is that a normal sort of process? Just a comment on that. It's a matter of curiosity for me, I guess.